snarf21

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by snarf21 5y ago
The problem with OSS funding isn't the technical mechanism that money is sent. The problem is that people don't want to pay period. The ONLY viable crypto use case is currency. The blockchain can't solve issues that require
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree but Australia was trying to pass a law that said they could request encrypted data but the platform was legally not allowed to disclose that such a request/action happened. Even if we had this transparency today, it would quick
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by snarf21 5y ago
The police believe that the software match proves he is guilty from the jump. The rest is gathering "evidence" to prove it further. Without the software, he wouldn't have been arrested. Guilty until proven innocent. The p
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by snarf21 5y ago
I had a similar situation crossing the US border coming back from Toronto. I got flagged because I pulled past a yellow line during the wait. Incidentally, I just followed the pattern of the person in front of me who flew through. The thing
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by snarf21 5y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair
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by snarf21 5y ago
I think that is the material change we need. Patents must be used as an active and relevant part of your product or you don't deserve protection. The point is to encourage innovation and from someone from basically just reselling your
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by snarf21 5y ago
Fair, but I think Slack/Teams are just as disruptive as physical interruptions, at least to me.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Interruptions are annoying but I think people are going a little overboard with this vitriol. I would wager that we are all just as guilty of doing the same to our team members who are deep in thought on something. "Did you merge that
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by snarf21 5y ago
Because otherwise someone will say that they invented a new algorithm for ML based on their ML effort at work but it was really solved at home on their personal computer. What happens if you come up with an idea while walking back from th
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by snarf21 5y ago
I'm confused. The parent was complaining about solving smoking but letting Juul "in" and all the chemicals it introduces to people. I was merely saying there are far more and far worse chemicals in our food. That we should ad
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by snarf21 5y ago
If only we would work on the real health issues in this country (world?) and start looking at what is being put into our foods. We largely only went after smoking because of its externalities. There is no such thing as second-hand sugar, sa
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree. We as humans won't take it serious until some really bad happens. Right now is just inconvenient. Even though you, me and others are willing to take hard steps to allow the problem to get solved, most people are not. It is s
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by snarf21 5y ago
I don't have a source handy but I remember reading something a while ago that said the carbon footprint for someone to drive to the grocery store and back is larger that the carbon footprint of all the other transportation involved in
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by snarf21 5y ago
I personally think that we need to combine significant whistleblowers with witness protection. They need the same protections and compensation to give up their current life. This is why people don't come forward know. Someone is likely
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by snarf21 5y ago
Yeah, I always think about my structure as "some small number of h/d/w/m/q/y". I count 1 week the same as 3 weeks in terms of scale. ymmv
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by snarf21 5y ago
Well said. My current rule based on experience is that estimates should only be hours/days/weeks/months/quarters/years with NO numbers. It is to give a sense of scale and effort so it could be prioritized and&#x2F
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by snarf21 5y ago
I think people already could do what you say. You could be on Facebook and only have family and a small group of close friends that you share with. People don't want that. They want to get as many likes as possible. They want to argu
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by snarf21 5y ago
Outrage is the tool that FB, Twitter, Fox News and CNN use to sell more ads. They won't stop because it is insanely successful. This is why we need taxing of digital advertising. This the root of all this evil. We need to make these be
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree that this would be helpful but people are lazy and don't really care. They know the car costs $60K but they only ask what the monthly payment is. We really need a strong CPB to get rid of all the rent seeking and exploitative b
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by snarf21 5y ago
Don't quote me but what I remember is that water is roughly stored with "sugar" in short term storage (liver, muscles) at a 3:1 ratio and in long term storage (fat cells) at a 1:1 ratio.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Can't they just enforce the blocking at the ISP level? They could do the same for VPNs in the country. If someone tries a VPN in another jurisdiction, that can be blocked from a more legal perspective. Local LE can try to access these
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by snarf21 5y ago
Exactly right. We want strong healthy companies. I'd rather see another special tax on all buybacks. That is the perfect time to collect more money and reduce some of the perverse incentives in the system right now.
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by snarf21 5y ago
They won't, they will outsource to some company running "machine learning" and then students will start getting suspended for other people with the same name doing things deemed inappropriate.
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by snarf21 5y ago
No, my opinion is that when things are out of whack, you can't solve them by creeping back to the "proper" line. You have to swing the pendulum hard and fast and go waaaay past where you think it should be. Then it will slo
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by snarf21 5y ago
I'm glad this works for you & others and that you are happy. However, every time WFH comes up here, people present their preferences as universally better or best. I hate WFH but that is my preference. I really wish these discussio
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by snarf21 5y ago
We have the laws and organizations but the FTC and SEC have failed us in the 21st century. There is no consideration of the consumer or marketplace, only shareholder value.
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by snarf21 5y ago
The planet can't support the the existing billions let alone more billions. The excuse can't be that we "just need..." all the billions to stop acting like humans and act some other human like race that cares more about
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by snarf21 5y ago
Introspection is our one true superpower.
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by snarf21 5y ago
I live in Lancaster and have been around Mennonites my whole life. I don't disagree with some of your points but I think there is more nuance to it. My understanding is that it isn't about delaying judgment on new technology, it i
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by snarf21 5y ago
And who is the authority whose job it is to update the blockchain? Why have a blockchain if a deed for property is already recorded in the courthouse on signed paper documents?

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